The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by powe...r enough to give authority to its decrees. ... Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The Citizens' Protective League of Denver, founded to "squelch the knocking and blackmailing newspapers in our beautiful but benig...hted city," demanded that no news story, editorial, or advertisement unfit for fifteen-year-olds to read should be published, ....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best--it's all they'll take, leaving to others th...e problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money--provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf w...ould be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out t...he dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ev...er be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »